Car-fender



(No Model.)

B. M. JOHNSON. GAR FENDER.

No. 603,728. Q Patented May 10,1898.

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ELISA MAGDALENE JOHNSON, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

CAR-FENDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.603,728, dated May 10,1898.

Application filed September 9, 189 7. Serial No. 651,040. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that. I, ELISA MAGDALENE JOHNSON, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Fenders;and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has reference to a novel construction in a car-fender,the object being to provide a device of this character that willeffectually prevent a person being run over by electric or other motorcars.

The invention consists in the features of construction hereinafter fullydescribed and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,Figure 1 is a side elevation of the front end portion of a car providedwith this fender. Fig. 2.is a vertical section through one side of thefender. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the fender detached.

Referring now to the drawings in detail my novel fender consists of aV-shaped frame havin g vertically-arranged sides and hooks 2 2 2 2 atthe rear side thereof for suspending it from the dashboard or front endof a car, said frame being preferably about five or six feet in heightand of such a length as to give the desired angular structure to throw aperson or animal to one side of the track. This frame is constructed,preferably, of a single piece of metal, as shown in the drawings.

The lower or base portion of this frame (indi-' cated in general on thedrawings by the numeral 3) is constructed as follows: The upper edge isturned inward and downward, so as to constitute a flange 6, having anangular relation to the outer or face portion 7. The lower edges ofthese two faces or flanges 6 and 7 are then turned, respectively,outward and inward, so as to constitute a rigid base at 8 and to leavebetween them a groove adapted to support a strip of rubber 5, having anenlarged upper portion 9 for holding it in place. This strengthened base3, as thus described, runs entirely around the lower portion of thefender, while the upper portion of the fender consists of a single rail,as shown, joined at its front or V-shaped end to the lower base by twovertical standards 1 1.

At the rear and bottom of the V-shaped fender are constructed two braces11 11, formed by turning an extended portion of the metal from which theframe is constructed inward, as shown, so that their inner ends rest,respectively, against the rear ends of the downwardly-turnedflanges 6 6;

The numeral 4 represents a lacing of strong cord or of such elastic oryielding material as will not materially injure a person or animal whenstruck, said lacing being secured in place between the top and bottomrails, the rear portion of the frame, and the vertical standards 1 1.

The operation of this novel fender will be obvious, it being apparentthat when secured to the dashboard of a car in the manner indicated itwill act, by reason of its yielding vertically-arranged side walls, tothrow a person sidewise from the track and therefore avoid the danger offalling beneath the wheels thereof and also any danger of a damagingshock.

I am aware that heretofore a car-fender has been devised of horseshoe oroblong shape in which the walls were so arranged as to lift a person oranimal bodily from the track after the manner of the cow-catcher of alocomotive, as disclosed in United States patents to Bean, No. 509,646,dated November 28, 1893, and McKinnon, No. 511,640, dated December 26,1893, and also that it is old to provide a yielding network or lacingfor car-fenders, as described and shown in the before-mentioned patentto McKinnon, and I make no claim hereinafter broad enough to includesuch structures, my most generic claim being to a V- shaped car-fenderwith yielding vertically-arranged walls, whereby a person or animal isthrown laterally from the road-bed without damaging shock and out of theway of the car.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent of the United States, is-

A car-fender of V shapehaving a rigid base of two flanges 6 and 7 whichsupport a strip of rubber or other yielding material 5 beneath them, incombination with vertically arspecification in the presence of twosubserib ranged walls of lacing material, together with ing witnesses.

hooks for attachin the fender to a car and v T braces 11, 11 located inthe rear of and. near ELISA MAGDALENE JOHBSON' 5 the base of the fender,substantially as de- Witnesses:

scribed. KATHERINE JOHNSON,

In testimony whereof I have signed this SAMUEL J. MCKENZIE.

